Kuwait Executes Five, Including Man Convicted Over ISIS Mosque Bombing
Kuwait, on Thursday, executed five people, including a man convicted of involvement in a 2015 ISIS suicide bombing that killed 27.
The Public Prosecution said one Kuwaiti, two Bidoons, an Egyptian and a Sri Lankan were hanged.
One of the two members of the Bidoon stateless minority group to be executed was identified as Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud. He was sentenced to death in 2015 on murder and terror charges for his involvement in the suicide bombing on the Imam Al Sadeq mosque in Kuwait City that killed at least 27 people and left more than 200 injured. Saud was considered the primary influencer in the bombing of the Shiite mosque in the capital during Friday prayers. It was the bloodiest attack in Kuwait’s history.
Those convicted include alleged ISIS leader in Kuwait, Fahad Farraj Muhareb, whose death sentence was reduced to 15 years in prison.
The sole Kuwaiti executed on Thursday was identified by the Public Prosecution as Abdulaziz Al Mutairi, who was sentenced in 2015 for premeditated murder.
The other men executed were convicted in cases of murder and drug trafficking.
